Antimony "Annie" Price needs a bit of luck. Fleeing from
the Covenant of St. George after her undercover
assignment took an unexpected turn, she abandons her
family, friends, her boyfriend, and even the Aeslin mice
in hopes to avoid capture. Using an old identity, Melody
West, she applies for a job at Lowryland Amusement Park.
She expects to work hard while she figures out how to
recover her life while avoiding the Covenant. What she
doesn't expect is the strange series of misfortunes that
begin plaguing Lowryland or the cabal of magic users
operating behind the scenery. What kind of mess has
Antimony gotten herself into? And is there a safe way
out?
TRICKS FOR FREE is the seventh book in the
InCryptid series and wow, this
series only gets
better and better! Better yet, the storyline is set near
my hometown and features a funky amusement park, perfect
for a city on the I-4 corridor of Florida. Seanan
McGuire provides most of the back history but readers new
to the series might want to read the prior book, MAGIC
FOR NOTHING, to better understand the character of
Antimony and why she is on the run.
Annie really comes into her own in TRICKS FOR FREE.
Earlier books in the series featured her older siblings
who painted a less than likable portrait of Annie. In
MAGIC FOR NOTHING, we start to see her character emerge
but in TRICKS FOR FREE she takes on a much more heroic
status and you can final see how she fits into the Price
legacy. In fact, Annie may well be my favorite Price
sibling after TRICKS FOR FREE!
And oh, the Aeslin mice! I dearly missed their
involvement in TRICKS FOR FREE but Seanan McGuire
includes a short story about their own escape, told
partially from their own perspective. I still miss the
Aeslin mice, however, and am hopeful we will see Annie
and her mice reunited in future books in the series.
TRICKS FOR FREE is yet another spectacular offering from
the talented Seanan McGuire. I love that the
InCryptid world continues to
expand as we learn
more about the various beings who inhabit Seanan
McGuire's carefully crafted world. I can't wait to see
where this series takes us next!
The seventh book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid
urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price
family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world
of magical creatures living in secret among humans.
Penance, noun:
1. Punishment for past actions.
2. An attempt to pay for what can't be bought.
3. See also "exile."
Antimony Price is on the run. With the Covenant on her tail
and her family still in danger, she needs to get far, far
away from anyone who might recognize her--including her own
mice. For the first time in a long time, a Price is flying
without a safety net. Where do you go when you need to
disappear into a crowd without worrying about attracting
attention? An amusement park, of course.
Some people would call Lowryland the amusement park. It's
one of the largest in Florida, the keystone of the Lowry
entertainment empire...but for Annie, it's a place to hide.
She's just trying to keep her head down long enough to come
up with a plan that will get her home without getting anyone
killed. No small order when she's rooming with gorgons and
sylphs, trying to placate frustrated ghosts, and rushing to
get to work on time.
Then the accidents begin. The discovery of a dead man brings
Annie to the attention of the secret cabal of magic users
running Lowryland from behind the scenes. They want the fire
that sleeps in her fingers. They want her on their side.
They want to help her--although their help, like everything
else, comes with a price.
No plan. Minimal backup. No way out. Annie's about to get a
crash course in the reality behind the pretty facade. If
she's lucky, she'll survive the experience.
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